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Volatile Musk Encounter With Opinionated Lemon

By Dom Serafini

Recently, I reviewed the interview that former CNN personality Don Lemon did with Elon Musk of X (formerly Twitter). I viewed the whole 66 minutes of it on (…)

By |April 15th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Relief and Excitement for MIP’s Ending

It seemed as though executives from RX France, the organizers of MIPTV, were relieved that the long agony of a market that started in 1963 was finally ending. At the (…)

By |April 11th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

MIP London on the Trail of the LMMM

“The London Screenings Come to MIPTV’s Rescue” read the headline of VideoAge’s March 6, 2023 Water Cooler feature. A year later it makes even more sense.

In 2025, MIP London, the (…)

By |April 8th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

MIP Preview Through ‘VideoAge’

The MIPTV edition of VideoAge is chock full of news and features, and even includes a guide to the 2024-2025 U.S. TV broadcast season. The Issue also previews the L.A. (…)

By |April 4th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Magic of Movie Theaters

We miss the cinema experience! Before the pandemic, prior to the advent of streaming, preceding the endless parade of superhero movies, in the days when a movie ticket was “only” (…)

By |April 1st, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Added Value of Post-Game Comments

By Yuri Serafini*

The idea of broadcasting sports on streaming services, in theory at least, extracts the maximum value from willing payers. Viewers subscribe for a season, or perhaps just make (…)

By |March 28th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

What Exactly Does an Influencer Do?

Thus far, it seems like no one has a clear answer as to what an influencer actually does. However, there are a few things that we do know about them. (…)

By |March 25th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Football in England is a Losing Proposition

Back again to talk about football (soccer), but this time it’s about the English clubs. On February 29, the Water Cooler reported that most of Italy’s major football Serie A (…)

By |March 21st, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Feldman’s NATPE Vets Met in L.A.

On March 14, 2024, 36 film and TV executives — all NATPE veterans — met for lunch at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, California. The (…)

By |March 19th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|6 Comments

Social Media Sites are Publishers, Not Messengers

By Dom Serafini

Justice Samuel Alito summarized the Social Media position before the U.S. Supreme Court (here paraphrased): “You say it’s like the Miami Herald (or any other newspaper), and the (…)

By |March 18th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments